Starting Oxtellar XR®

Oxtellar XR Is Taken Once a Day

Life can get hectic and many people struggle to remember to take medications multiple times a day. What’s the right choice for you in managing your partial seizures?

Adding Once-a-Day Oxtellar XR May Be a Good Fit for You

Oxtellar XR is the first FDA-approved once-a-day form of oxcarbazepine:

An add-on therapy that’s been proven in a medical study to significantly reduce the number of partial seizures*

Steady delivery of medicine over 24 hours

Is taken only once a day

*Individual results may vary.

Tips for Talking to Your Doctor

It is important that you and your doctor talk about your partial seizures and how they should be treated. Below are some tips for talking to your doctor:

Write down any questions you may have

Write down how many partial seizures you have had since your last visit:

Try to remember when and where they happened

Try to describe them as best as you can

Write down at what time of day you take your medications

Be sure to tell your doctor if you miss a dose

Tell your doctor if you are taking any medications, vitamins, or supplements

Tell your doctor about any recent changes in diet

Write down any side effects you are having

Consider bringing someone with you just to make sure you don’t forget to tell your doctor anything

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Important Safety Information

Do not take Oxtellar XR if you are allergic to oxcarbazepine or any of the other ingredients in Oxtellar XR.

Oxtellar XR can cause serious side effects, including a low level of sodium in your blood. Symptoms of low blood sodium include nausea, tiredness, lack of energy, headache, confusion, and more frequent or more severe partial seizures. Similar symptoms that are not related to low sodium may occur from taking Oxtellar XR. Other serious side effects include partial seizures happening more often or becoming worse, trouble concentrating, problems with your speech and language, feeling confused, feeling sleepy and tired, and trouble walking and with coordination. The most common side effects include dizziness, sleepiness, headache, problems with walking and coordination (unsteadiness), shakiness, nausea, vomiting, double vision, weakness, and tiredness. These are not all of the possible side effects of Oxtellar XR. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

Like other antiepileptic drugs, Oxtellar XR may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500. Before you take Oxtellar XR, tell your healthcare provider if you have or have had depression, mood problems, or suicidal thoughts or behavior. Call a healthcare provider right away if you have thoughts about suicide or dying, attempts to commit suicide, have new or worse depression or new or worse anxiety, feel agitated or restless, experience panic attacks, trouble sleeping (insomnia), or new or worse irritability, feel or act more aggressive, angry, or violent, act on dangerous impulses, have an extreme increase in activity and talking (mania), or experience other unusual changes in behavior or mood.

Oxtellar XR may also cause allergic reactions or serious problems which may affect organs and other parts of your body like the liver or blood cells. You may or may not have a rash with these types of reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following: swelling of your face, eyes, lips, or tongue, trouble swallowing or breathing, a skin rash, hives, fever, swollen glands, or sore throat that does not go away or comes and goes, painful sores in the mouth or around your eyes, yellowing of your skin or eyes, unusual bruising or bleeding, severe fatigue or weakness, severe muscle pain, frequent infections, or infections that do not go away. Many people who are allergic to carbamazepine are also allergic to Oxtellar XR. Tell your healthcare provider if you are allergic to carbamazepine.

Before taking Oxtellar XR, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you have or have had suicidal thoughts or actions, depression or mood problems, have liver problems, have kidney problems, use birth control medicine, are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Oxtellar XR passes into breast milk. You and your healthcare provider should discuss whether you should take Oxtellar XR or breastfeed. You should not do both.

Oxtellar XR may harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you become pregnant while taking Oxtellar XR. If you use birth control medicine, Oxtellar XR may cause your birth control medicine to be less effective.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Taking Oxtellar XR with certain other medicines may cause side effects or affect how well they work. Do not start or stop other medicines without talking to your healthcare provider. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take: carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, or birth control medicine.

Do not stop taking Oxtellar XR without talking to your healthcare provider. Stopping Oxtellar XR suddenly can cause serious problems, including partial seizures that will not stop. Take Oxtellar XR exactly as prescribed.

Do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how Oxtellar XR affects you. Oxtellar XR may slow your thinking and motor skills.

Do not drink alcohol or take other drugs that make you sleepy or dizzy while taking Oxtellar XR until you talk to your healthcare provider. Oxtellar XR taken with alcohol or drugs that cause sleepiness or dizziness may make your sleepiness or dizziness worse.

INDICATION

Oxtellar XR® (oxcarbazepine) extended-release tablets is a prescription medicine used with other medicines to treat partial seizures in adults and children 6 to 17 years of age.